"What About Us?" Bringing Infertility Into Reproductive Health Care.Quality/Calidad/Qualite, 2002 This publication focuses on an infertility infertility, inability to conceive or carry a child to delivery. The term is usually limited to situations where the couple has had intercourse regularly for one year without using birth control. programme in India that treats both men and women. The programme is based in a clinic that is linked to a local women's group where educational and gender awareness activities are carried out. STDs cause infertility in many women, and reducing STD (Subscriber Trunk Dialing) Long distance dialing outside of the U.S. that does not require operator intervention. STD prefix codes are required and billing is based on call units, which are a fixed amount of money in the currency of that country. transmission cannot happen without empowerment of women. A shorter case study from Nigeria is also included. These narratives illustrate what is involved in trying to address infertility in developing country settings. Both projects combine education, counselling, history-taking, laboratory testing, minor pharmacological and surgical therapies, and referral. Although clinical and economic factors mean limited success rates, programmes like these are enabling some couples to become parents, and providing information and support to many more. Available from: Population Council One Dag Hammerskjold Plaza New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of NY 10017, USA Fax: +1-212-755-6052 E-mail: pubinfo@popcouncil.org Web: www.popcouncil.org |
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